Not yet systematic in medical practice, the measurement of resting heart rate (CF) could quickly become so. This is in any case the wish of Dr Patrick Jourdain, cardiologist at the René Dubos hospital in Pontoise (Val d'Oise). In his view, it is "a full cardiovascular risk factor, independent of others: blood pressure and cholesterol levels".
Not yet systematic in medical practice, the measurement of resting heart rate (CF) could quickly become so. This is in any case the wish of Dr Patrick Jourdain, cardiologist at the René Dubos hospital in Pontoise (Val d'Oise). In his view, it is "a full cardiovascular risk factor, independent of others: blood pressure and cholesterol levels".